Where do we go from here?

I wish it was the sixties,

I wish I could be happy,

I wish, I wish, I wish,

that something would happen.

-Thom Yorke

Where do we go from here?

Well that depends on whether you want to go where I want to go. Where I want to go is a place where we elect politicians who are striving to do a good job for everybody, not make their base happy. I want to make a system that rewards those politicians, and brings them to the top.

I want to help bring about a world where we can talk to each other, in a way that brings out the best in our human nature.

For as ambitious as this sounds, there is good news: we would not have to change a single thing about the political process to bring about the change I imagine.

This political movement would simply be this. Candidates go on aielfy.com to respond to the majority of public opinion. The site shows where the public stands politically, expressed as goals that most of us acknowledge the importance of. The politician, at a minimum, simply responds on the site with an explanation of how their policy achieves these goals.

But how do we make this site, what do we do? Here's what I think. I think that what I'm talking about, has an incredible amount to it and would take years to build. But I think that there are incremental steps we could take to change the world right now, surely not tomorrow, but maybe a month from now.

I’ll develop this essay more in the days and weeks to come, with a detailed outline of the steps I imagine taking that could start to bring about consensus, and more importantly the willingness to find consensus, among the public.

Please stay tuned for future chapters, and feel free to reach out to me with any questions. My email address is my first name, then a period, then my last name, at gmail.com. (There’s no “r” in my last name).

Happy imagining!

Nathan Wight